Makes sense.

Perhaps the ad-free prime video subscription could be a viable option if prime has a lot of your favourite shows and you are opposed to piracy?

Not judging or telling you what to do. Just thinking out loud.

I would just go with piracy if you don’t want to pay the ad free tier.

This would be a good thing (if Dimensity 9400 is indeed a solid product); more competition for Qualcomm and Samsung LSI is a good thing.

It seems that no one other than TSMC can deploy leading edge nodes. It would be far more beneficial for consumers if Samsung and Intel were far more competitive. We’re just going to get more “Apple only” nodes if TSMC dominates in an overwhelming manner.

Don’t know about your local market, but if the device is in mint condition, I doubt you will get a much better price (especially if the keyboard and screen are decent).

The article was a bit sensationalist, but I do think underlines that there are many limitations to WoA that are often ignored (or perhaps brushed under the rug) in most mainstream tech review of WoA devices.

You will never know until you try. :)

Small world.

Most mainstream tech journalism tends to have a PR-friendly vibe.

Not every article should critical and skeptical, but there should be at least a semblance of balance.

This is the part I don’t understand, if we are not defining (measuring) 1s and 0s, then what is going on?

How do you represent data, execute commands on data if there are no 1s and 0s.

Thanks for writing that out.

This does make sense and it’s roughly what I’ve read previously.

What I don’t understand is why is there even something called a qubit that stops working if you observe it. This does not make sense to me.

I also don’t really get the model of how qubits are programmed and quantum commands (???) are executed.

Cheers, will check it out.

It can also double as a weapon/shield combo if needed. Not the best option, but better than nothing.

I guess that would depend on your interpretation of Moore’s law.

Improvement in semiconductor performance is clearly not dead.

But “[relatively] easy automatic wins” from moving to a new node are starting to become less common. Prices for new nodes are not getting cheaper (even on a standardized basis), performance/efficiency/size gains are becoming more modest and ramp-up/deployment times are becoming longer and longer.

I get the joke, but honestly I still don’t fully understand how quantum computing works and I’ve read multiple primers on the topic.

“Classic” computing may be complicated, but the base principle are actually somewhat straightforward.

I don’t believe SMIC has commercially viable 5 nm.

Arguably Moore’s law is indeed dead. But that doesn’t mean we can’t get improvements from other areas like advanced packaging, chip power supply and so on…

I have yet to try a foldable (currently too expensive for my budget), so this just based on what I’ve read.

To my my understanding, the crease is always visible in any current products, but it has become less annoying in the latest iterations where people don’t notice them.

Depends on what kind of games you play. Economic strategy games (tycoons, city-builders, large scale simulation games) can easily bring even a modern CPU to it’s knees.

I am on a 3080 (with a 1440 monitor). I am considering a monitor upgrade (current one is 75 Hz max), but I have no interest in a new GPU or moving to 4K (for now).